Author: wazup
Metacritic stops letting you review games on the day they’re released
Metacritic wants people to actually play a game before reviewing it, so the site now requires users to wait 36 hours from when a new game is released before leaving a score. The intention is to prevent review-bombing campaigns, where people leave negative scores on a title sometimes as a way to punish the developer. Heading to a review page for a recently released title on Metacritic will now disp...
Perry Farrell to Release Career-Spanning Box Set
Perry Farrell will release a career-spanning box set that will look outside of his work in Jane’s Addiction and Porno for Pyros. The set will encompass his entire 35-year career. Titled Perry Farrell- The Glitz; The Glamour, the collection features 68 tracks and a release bills it, cements Farrell’s status as the “Godfather of Alternative Rock.” Included in it is a Blu-ray feat...
Trump’s ‘unforced error’ puts Western Senate Republicans in an election jam
“Everything they gain from being part of the Great American Outdoors Act, all of that goodwill will go out the window if they support this nominee,” Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee, told POLITICO. “In any western state that has substantial public land, this is a resonant issue that can make a difference,” he said, adding...
Nandi Bushell Thanks Tom Morello and Brad Wilk with Audioslave Cover
If you’re wondering what the future of rock music looks like, Nandi Bushell can show you. She dropped a video covering Audioslave’s “Cochise.” While cover videos aren’t a new thing, the 10-year-old British-Zulu musician shows all her musical skills and played the bass, the drums and a special guitar that was gifted to her by Rage Against the Machine’s Tom Morello. Giving each note all her energy, ...
Black Veil Brides Unveil New Track from Re-Stitch These Wounds & SPIN’s Untitled Twitch Stream Appearance
While most bands are just remastering or re-releasing their seminal albums for big anniversaries, Black Veil Brides are taking it a step further by fully rerecording 2010’s We Stitch These Wounds as the updated Re-Stitch These Wounds. The album (out July 31 on Sumerian) comes alongside their August 1 performance streamed live from the famous Whisky a Go Go in West Hollywood — a...
Soundgarden Drop Benefit Show Counterclaim Suit Against Vicky Cornell
The surviving members of Soundgarden have dropped part of their counterclaim against Vicky Cornell, which they filed in May regarding the 2019 I Am the Highway benefit show, after being threatened with sanctions by her legal team. In the original filing, the band accused Cornell of using the funds from the show for “personal purposes for herself and her family.” Despite dropping thi...
Listen to Eddie Vedder and Supersuckers Cover the Ramones’ ‘I Believe in Miracles’
On June 19, 2014, the Supersuckers played the tour closer for their American tour. But it became more significant because it was the final show after singer and bassist Eddie Spaghetti was diagnosed with throat cancer was set to get surgery. Despite the cloud over the Supersuckers at that moment, they had a great show that turned into an epic moment. During the encore, Eddie Vedder joined the band...
US video game spending hit a 10-year high in June
Video game spending in the US reached its highest point since 2010, according to a new NPD Group report, with sales through June reaching $6.6 billion on hardware, software, and accessories. It’s the highest total for the first six months of the year since spending hit $7 billion a decade ago. Spending has been dramatically higher in 2020 than it was compared to last year, with sales through June ...
Federal agencies concerned face masks will thwart facial recognition tech
The US Department of Homeland Security has raised concerns internally that face masks meant to protect against the spread of COVID-19 may interfere with facial recognition technology, The Intercept reported. It also appears worried about the use of face masks to evade law enforcement even after the COVID-19 pandemic is over. A bulletin from May 22nd, which was drafted in conjunction with other fed...
Dell XPS 17 (2020) review: heavy hitter
The Dell XPS 17 isn’t for me. Yes, it has a 17-inch screen. Yes, it has high-powered specs including an H-series processor and an RTX GPU. But compared to many other laptops available today, it’s really heavy — it’s about five and a half pounds. Some folks might enjoy hefting a five-and-a-half-pound laptop around the house or in their backpack during the day. But that’s not me, and I doubt it’s mo...
Watch Chip Tanaka’s surreal new music video, directed by the creator of Undertale
Legendary chiptune composer Hirokazu “Chip” Tanaka just released a new solo album, and the accompanying music video for the song “Hammerhead Shark Song” is extremely fitting. Tanaka is best known for the soundtracks to classic games like Metroid, Mother, and Donkey Kong, and the video — directed by Toby Fox, creator of the retro-infused RPG Undertale — maintains that vibe while adding in a hefty d...
Killer Mike Is ‘Optimistic’ About the Future Following Protests
As the protests for Black Lives Matter continue, Killer Mike says that he is optimistic about the future due to people’s actions. “Instead of the audience just looking like me, because it’s a Black issue, it’s a combination of all people, races and ethnicities coming out,” he told NME. “I’m optimistic about the opportunity to organize, even though I’m not optimistic about government or world ...
